MEDFORD, NY —the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory and Advanced Energy Systems, Inc. of Medford, N.Y. (AES) celebrated the opening of a new hi-tech facility at the AES site that will produce crucial components used in particle accelerators around the world. Brookhaven Science Associates, which manages Brookhaven Lab for DOE, purchased equipment worth approximately $2 million as its contribution to the facility. AES invested in the infrastructure improvements it needed to expand its operations, assisted by a $200,000 grant from the Empire State Development Corporation.

“This facility is the result of a unique public/private partnership meant to spur technology advances on Long Island,” said Brookhaven Lab Director Sam Aronson. “The collaboration — the first of its kind that Brookhaven Science Associates has undertaken — will help us reach our scientific goals while contributing to the growth of a local company.”

AES will use the new facility to produce superconducting radio-frequency (SRF) cavities, which are used to accelerate particles to very high energies. Since SRF technology is a highly efficient way to accelerate particle beams, nearly all particle accelerators and colliders currently proposed or under construction incorporate them. Particle accelerators based on SRF cavities have great potential in basic and applied research in the fields of nuclear physics, medicine, energy, environment, and national security.

Advanced Energy Systems produces superconducting radiofrequency cavities for use in particle accelerators around the world. 

Source: Brookhaven Lab Website